Digital asset treasury (DAT) companies face a grim future heading into 2026, with shares in many of the largest players sharply down, industry executives say. “Going into the next year, I think that the outlook for DATs is looking a bit bleak,” Altan Tutar, co-founder and CEO of crypto yield platform MoreMarkets, told Cointelegraph. Large
Crypto venture capital firms poured billions into early-stage tokens during 2025’s risk-on rebound, but many of those bets are now trading far below their headline fundraising values. The growing gap between private funding numbers and public market caps highlights a market reset after narrative-driven optimism cooled. Data recently shared by CryptoRank shows dozens of well-funded
Brazil is testing one of crypto’s oldest assumptions: that digital assets only thrive when traditional financial systems fail. With its benchmark Selic rate sitting at 15%, one of the highest among major economies, Brazil’s central bank has maintained an aggressively tight monetary stance. Yet according to new IMF research, the country’s financial system is not
This year, exchange-traded funds opened several doors to crypto on Wall Street, as the SEC forged a fresh approach to the products. Although asset managers had previously fought tooth and nail to offer products tracking Bitcoin and Ethereum’s spot price, many foresaw opportunities in 2025, as the regulatory environment started to shift with President Donald
2025 showed no mercy, with bitcoin and crypto-linked equities ping-ponging between dizzying swings, extended snoozes, and moments that demanded a double take. What follows is a snapshot report of the year’s top and bottom digital asset stocks—and exactly how each one fared along the way. 2025’s Crypto Stock Scorecard This year, crypto-related stocks zigzagged through
Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, a regulated platform offering issuers and traders access to capital and tokenized securities, foresees continued growth in the tokenized real-world assets (RWA) market in 2026. He highlighted that adoption in emerging market economies is expected to be a key driver of this expansion. Knutson’s forecast surprised many
Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana, has outlined a set of projections for 2026 that place stablecoins at the center of several structural shifts underway across digital asset markets. His comments were shared in a public post on X and referenced a future in which the global stablecoin supply exceeds $1 trillion, alongside advances in
The tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market will continue to grow in 2026, fueled by adoption in emerging market economies, according to Jesse Knutson, head of operations at crypto exchange Bitfinex. Emerging market economies experience “friction” in capital formation and attracting foreign investment, Knutson told Cointelegraph Tokenizing real-world assets, the process of representing physical or traditional